With SNAP benefits going out late, nonprofits are begging for pet food donations to prevent desperate owners from surrendering their dogs and cats to animal shelters.

Amazing that our courts have to tell our government not to do something that nobody would have ever even thought of doing… because it’s insane.

rule of law Rule of law Rule of Law Rule Of Law! RULE OF LAW!!!

Democratic senators Alex Padilla and Dick Durbin said they “strongly oppose” the DOJ’s unprecedented legal efforts to stronghold states into handing over private voter data, arguing it lacks the legal authority to do so. https://bit.ly/3WKpqVf

"The cruelty feels sudden, but it’s anything but accidental." Read: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

At least Chuck Schumer embarrassed himself for nothing.

The peacetime presidency wants the military operating on a wartime footing.

Hegseth decries "broken incentives that reward compliance with rules and regulations"

What happened in 1939, Mr. Secretary?

Incredibly destructive.

Trump: We are the victors on affordability

Dems need to start talking more about how Trump’s dementia means that he can’t distinguish his fantasies from reality. He has completely lost touch with the real world and only knows what his sycophantic courtiers are telling him.

As other Alts have done, I’m hopping on the pile on wagon to provide some examples of how this is fucking us all’s

NEWS — The Oregon Department of Human Services has issued 100% of November SNAP benefits, per an alert on their website. I've received reports that the funds have already hit recipients' EBT accounts. www.oregon.gov/odhs/news/Pa...

Coal miners speak out after the Trump administration removed black lung protections: "They’re doing everything they can to hurt the working man. They ain’t worried about the miners or people in West Virginia or coal miners anywhere. All they’re worried about is the almighty dollar in DC."

BREAKING: The Trump administration seeks an emergency pause to a court order demanding full November SNAP payments.

Consumer sentiment has fallen for the fourth month in a row, reaching the second-lowest level ever recorded. 70% of consumers think US economic policy is "poor."

Curtis Yarvin is planning flee the country. Steve Bannon is worried about returning to prison. Don't listen to anyone who says the fascists have already won. The future is not yet written.

“I don’t want to hear about the affordability.”

Vance on a federal judge ordering the Trump administration to use emergency contingency funds to partially pay SNAP benefits: "It's an absurd ruling...In the midst of a shutdown, we can't have a federal court telling the president how he has to triage the situation."

When you desperately want to starve Americans:

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 HOLD THE LINE SENATE DEMS! Did Tuesday mean nothing?? Call Congress NOW: 202-224-3121 👇🏽

Desperate airlines plead with Congress to end shutdown

Deeply disturbing news for cultural preservation and historical reckoning: "A few years ago, the United States led the world in restoring stolen history — and it mattered." - Attorney Bradley Gordon archived: archive.is/5C5Yu

Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.

House Oversight Ranking Member Robert Garcia has requested that Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, the now-former Prince, appear before Congress for a transcribed interview about Jeffrey Epstein.

A federal judge has just ordered the Trump admin to FULLY fund SNAP benefits for the month of November starting tomorrow. (Trump/WH have already filed an appeal.)

"Let me be clear: The president has both the funding and the authority to fund SNAP during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.” Gov. Andy Beshear

OH MY GOD www.wsmv.com/2025/11/06/p...

Politicians can get away with lying to people for quite a while about a lot of different subjects, but they have never been able to get away with lying to them about how much things cost.

🚨 Armed Services Chair Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) said he’s seen an “unsettling trend” of Pentagon moves that he argues undermine Trump’s stated commitments to NATO and other international efforts — and he singled out Colby’s office in particular 👇 www.politico.com/live-updates...

The assignment: full force behind @aftynbehn.bsky.social’s TN-7 campaign! Mike Johnson is possibly waiting till 12/2 to seat Grijalva in hopes of Trump endorsed sycophant Van Epps cancelling her out? We flipped districts nationwide Tue night. Back to work - Democracy or bust! (Cont.)

And, there it is...

Federal Judge Sara Ellis declares that Homeland Security is not telling the truth about its attacks on the people of Chicago. "I don't find defendants' version of events credible." she says.

A milestone: the court order in Chicago today potentially checks America's slide to a secret police state. For the first time, ICE and CBP agents are ordered to wear clear identification: badge numbers or names. Either they comply or this becomes THE issue in which the battle for democracy.

A federal court temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s deployment of National Guard troops in Oregon, with plans to issue a permanent block by Friday. While the current order bars deployment, the final order will presumably also bar troop federalization. https://bit.ly/3JhoAwc

Today Judge Sarah Ellis, presiding over a Chicago case involving the use of force by federal agents during immigration roundups, began her remarks by reading every word of the poem Chicago” by Carl Sandburg. Poem in the alt text. #resist through literacy—and thank a high school English teacher.

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

A recent essay, “The Great Feminization,” posits that the growing influence of women is harming U.S. institutions. @sophiegilbert.bsky.social argues that the real problem facing American culture is quite different:

Migrating wild birds are spreading the virus to domesticated flocks, increasing the risk of eventually seeing a human outbreak. Scientists are troubled by the muted federal response. n.pr/4913a0E

House cancels votes next week, including vote on Epstein files.

Add another week.

GOP: "we lost, rather than reflection on why.......we must stop women from voting! Anyone who doesn't support misogynistic, racist, & bigoted policies shouldn't be allowed to vote"........if they keep saying they're going to take away our right to vote, let's see what that gets them in the midterms.

ICE is a domestic terrorist organization.

An Oregon supermarket that offered markdowns to customers impacted by a lapse in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program has been dinged by federal officials.

A majority of Supreme Court justices on Wednesday expressed skepticism about President Donald Trump claiming so much power from a Carter-era law.

In his first days in office, Trump abruptly killed the ongoing DOJ investigation into Epstein's co-conspirators. Why did that happen? Who’s Trump trying to protect?